SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Let’s examine how an ICP focus has helped two businesses win in a competitive marketplace. .

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Many companies that expand globally reach a point where they can’t properly support their international customers with their current payment platform. An international payment gateway can help with some of these issues, but it’s only one piece of the puzzle. What is an international payment gateway? Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. Cloud Marketplaces. We’re bringing S-M-B back with SaaS. The rise of the “citizen” developer and creator.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. The second constituent there is the developer.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. But that ease of use can come at a steep price for developers.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

RevOps has grown in importance as SaaS products have continued to proliferate and organizations have recognized the importance of good data, efficient workflows, and ensuring cross-department collaboration. Processing and remitting payments. Businesses are continuing to streamline their purchasing.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. Determining where you are on the spectrum leads to the sort of customers you plan to target, your route to market and the most effective sales process. Purchase process. Gaining new customers.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

In the payments industry, choosing the right ISV partner is critical; look for robust APIs, hardware support, strong onboarding, and fair revenue-sharing models. An Independent Software Vendor (ISV) is a company that develops and sells software products that run on one or more platforms or devices. What is an ISV Partner?

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Messente is a global messaging SaaS that helps companies send SMS messages and PIN codes in countries around the world. Note: If you’re expanding to new regions, we can help.

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Stax

JUNE 20, 2024

The SaaS space is one of the most dynamic industries out there, which is why smart comapnies team up with strategic partners to drive growth and innovation. Enter ISVs, which play a crucial role in enhancing and extending the capabilities of SaaS solutions. Its purpose? To foster symbiotic relationships that drive mutual growth.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

Imagine cutting years off payment system setup. The number of Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) has grown 13.8% For businesses, this means they can use payment systems without starting from scratch. PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms. each year since 2018.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. Visualize every process from end to end. If optimizing your business processes sounds like a good idea, this post will tell you everything you need to know about how to find the perfect BPM software for you. Process Visualization. Process Automation.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. What are SaaS companies?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Yes, the tech giants could develop the software these micro startups are making, but by the time it’s ready for market, a competitor might have rolled a similar product out and taken all the glory. It’s usually much cheaper to acquire a startup that has done the legwork than get an idea internally developed. Micro Acquire.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But these platforms typically have an extensive marketplace with a plethora of plugins—so it shouldn’t be too difficult, even though it requires an extra step. But if you’re using a site builder or SaaS CMS, you can usually expect 24/7 support. So it’s a great choice for developers and tech-savvy users. Custom Capabilities.

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FastSpring

JUNE 23, 2020

Flowmapp is a full-stack UX platform that enables companies to design exceptional user experiences for beautiful products, websites, and apps with online collaborative tools. This is what led them to FastSpring. As a result of their partnership with FastSpring, Flowmapp achieved 2.5x growth year over year.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. The potential impact of failed or inadequate internal systems, processes, procedures, etc.

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User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Wondering how to build a conversion path for your SaaS product or e-commerce site? TL;DR A conversion path is a step-by-step process that guides prospects. A good conversion path makes the process frictionless. How to create an effective conversion path Ready to build a successful conversion path for your SaaS product?

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FastSpring

JUNE 6, 2024

Xsolla is a merchant of record (MoR) payment provider that serves the video game industry. The platform includes a broad feature set that provides game developers with the infrastructure needed to sell online and accept online payments globally, without having to manage localization, sales tax and VAT, or fraud prevention on their own.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost. The largest 3rd party ecommerce platform.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 19, 2024

In recent years, Software as a Service (SaaS) has revolutionized the way businesses operate, offering scalable solutions accessible over the internet. Evolution of Marketplaces Marketplaces have long served as platforms connecting buyers and sellers, facilitating transactions across various industries.

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Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while. Request Quote Understanding Embedded Finance Embedded finance is the seamless integration of financial services and digital banking into conventionally non-financial business services.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. Note: These are written with SaaS and software products in mind, although many of the principles apply to other types of products as well.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing the many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing, but it isn’t without limitations. For example, the Stripe analytics dashboard is lacking the needed depth for SaaS businesses that rely on recurring revenue.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It is the dissection of the entire service to determine the likely cost behind each portion to come up with an estimate of a vendor’s cost structure. Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards. Try Baremetrics Free.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

Today’s methodologies and processes give us a lot of different types of leads. Fortunately, there’s a way to make the entire process of getting, nurturing, and closing leads simple, and it only uses one type of lead — Sales Accepted Leads (SALs). For example, Lemlist is a relatively new tool in a very crowded marketplace.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

But you can’t build a great SaaS or e-Commerce company without the help of digital tools. If you’re serious about growing your startup, you’ll eventually need to put down the pen and paper to-do list and upgrade to a SaaS solution. You don’t need any SEO or developer experience to use it. HostGator costs only $3.84

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